Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Luke 23:56
And they returned, and prepared spices and ointments.This is not a denial that Joseph of Arimathea and Nicodemus might also have made such preparations for anointing the body, a tender act of love that could not be rendered because of the sudden onset of the holy Passover and its special high sabbath. Significantly, by the falling of that high day upon a Friday (beginning Thursday at sunset), there were back-to-back sabbaths, Friday and Saturday, a truth witnessed in the Greek text of Matthew... read more
Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Luke 23:55
And the women, who had come with him out of Galilee, followed after, and beheld the tomb, and how his body was laid.It is good that Luke recorded this, because it refutes the lie that on the morning of the resurrection perhaps the women went to the wrong grave! No more dependable group of witnesses could be imagined than a multitude of women, all of whom saw the grave and observed the manner in which the body was buried. read more